UNE highlighted as model for financial success in ā€˜Business Officerā€™ magazine

President Danielle Ripich and Vice President Nicole Trufant

Ā鶹ֱ²„ President Danielle Ripich and Vice President of Finance and Administration Nicole Trufant told the story of UNEā€™s path to reinvention in the November 2016 issue of Business Officer magazine, a publication from the National Association of University Business Officers.

The article, titled, ā€œStrategic Intent to Reinvent,ā€ explained how President Ripich and the UNE administration created a growth-minded culture to forge a pathway to financial stability and growth for the institution. It details the universityā€™s accomplishments over the past decade, including an enrollment increase from 4,000 to more than 12,000 students, a new campus in Morocco and three new colleges.

ā€œTogether, our centralized approach to management kept UNE nimble and quick to adapt as it built or renovated more than a million square feet of space on three campuses, and created new programs that solidified its new mission as a university committed to innovation for a healthier planet,ā€™ā€ the article stated.

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The Ā鶹ֱ²„ is Maineā€™s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of . In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The stateā€™s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maineā€™s only medical college, Maineā€™s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.